Re: Forms

I don't know why I haven't  learned from all the years emailing various
lists that I should include every detail. I assumed (incorrectly again) that
people reading would make certain assumptions. I only included the code that
I assumed was the problem. I also didn't include other things on that page
because they weren't relevant to the problem.

I know myself that I have had to make assumptions when reading/answering
others peoples problems.

Thanks for all who answered as it did solve my problem.

Beauford

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Haslam" <jim(at)haslam.com>
To: "Beauford.2002" <beauford.2002(at)rogers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: Forms


> I don't see an action statement in your form that tells the form to go to
> the php script.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> Jim H
>
>
> At 04:36 PM 12/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm sending this to both lists as I'm not sure where the problem is, but
I
> >believe it is an issue with my HTML form. Here's the problem:
> >
> >I have a drop-down menu form on my webpage with employee names in it.
When I
> >choose a name and click submit it gets passed to a php page which
accesses a
> >mysql database and displays information about that employee.
> >
> >The problem is that the form is not sending the employee name to the php
> >page. If I insert the name in the php page manually, it works fine, so
the
> >problem appears to be with the form.
> >
> >Can someone help me out here - a sample of my code is below. I'm not sure
> >how to explain this, but whatever gets sent to the PHP page has to be one
> >variable - i.e. if I choose John, then the variable that gets sent to the
> >PHP should have the value John, if I choose Mary, the value of the
variable
> >should be Mary. Hope this makes sense.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> ><P><CENTER><FORM NAME="Employees">
> ><SELECT NAME="name">
> ><OPTION SELECTED VALUE=""></OPTION>
> ><OPTION VALUE="John"</OPTION>John
> ><OPTION VALUE="Mary"</OPTION>Mary
> ></SELECT>
> ><INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit">
>
>
>

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